Alleged new targets

[RobM]

Lloyd Owusu. 8 games zero goals this season.
James Hayter - 5 feet 9 inches of aerial power! 12 goals.

Please someone - tell me it's not true!

 

[TrueBlue]

I would take Hayter

 

[Pubey]

i would take hayter but not for the £175,000 rumoured... unless we can get that for paynter

 

[EastStandBlue]

Owusu is absolute garbage and has been garbage this season for Brentford... So of course we'll sign him.

 

[Shrimpersunited]

Hayter would be a great singing but i agree with you on the Owusu point; we want players who can score GOALS!!

 

[Blueshrimper]

I can't see what would be wrong with Hayter. I think he is a great striker.

 

[Shrimpersunited]

i would take hayter but not for the £175,000 rumoured... unless we can get that for paynter

Agree Paynters go's for around £150,000 although i thought we brought him for £250,000. Then we can get Hayter.

Surely he will come to us than Doncaster?

 

[mattytheshrimper]

i would really like to get hayter. great player

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Hayter yes, Owusu no

 

[Smiffy]

Charlie McDonald - Gravesend & Northfleet..

Scunny rumoured to be in for him...

 

[KrustyTheKray]

Charlie McDonald - Gravesend & Northfleet..

Scunny rumoured to be in for him...

I mentioned him ages ago and thought he's be a good transfer target.

I also noticed today, Sheff Wed want Akinfenwa from Swansea. I've always thought he could do a job with us, tall, quick, likes to put it about and scores goals.

 

[Bromley Blue]

I'm down here at uni in Bournemouth and its well known that Hayter has strong ties to this area so it would take something special to get him to move. At one point I thought a move to Bristol City or even Saints would have been possible as he could commute. If this had been rumoured last summer however that something special could have been championship football.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Owusu ''NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO''

( Gets ready to cut up New Season Ticket ) .

 

[A Century United]

I love this time of year, it's always the same:

1. Random names are posted on SZ with the assurance that "inside information" guarantees that we will see this rising star/solid pro/wise old head signing for the Mighty Blues before the week is out.

2. 10% of SZ proclaim the dawning of a new age of Footballing Triumph with these new players spearheading our return to the Championship. 80% of SZ is unmoved. 10% of SZ threaten self-immolation at the very thought of such unworthies pulling on the Sacred Cloth of Shrimperdom. All of 1. & 2. is worth around 97.4 posts per player named.

3. The named players sign for another club. 10% of SZ wail that RM lacks ambition and Tilson wouldn't know a good player if he was bitten by one. 80% of SZ remain unmoved. 10% of SZ heave a mighty sigh of relief. There is no correlation, BTW, between the ratio of SZ'rs in 2. and 3.

4. At 2 minutes to midnight on the last day of the Transfer Window, it is revealed that we have signed a new player. This player will not have been mentioned in any thread on SZ in the preceding months. The 10% of SZ who have been calling for a player, ANY player to boost our squad promptly label this "A Panic Buy". The 10% of SZ who have threatend mass suicide at any of the names mentioned previously now decide that ANY of them would have been better than the donkey now residing in SUFC's stable. 80% of SZ raise an eyebrow and determine to wait and judge after a suitable time.

5. The Donkey has a storming first game. Mass apologies are posted by those who had previously only detected the smell of hay. The Donkey has a poor second game. The apologies are immediately rescinded and the chorus of "I told you so"'s is deafening. Flame wars erupt between the "I've not actually seen him but you could tell he was crap by the BBC Text Commentary" and the "Judge him after 20 games" camps. Matt the Shrimp finally loses it with Wiggy after discovering that Wiggy is actually either A) CSJ or B) CSJ's mum (or dad).

6. Order is eventually restored, just in time for the first Random name to be posted on SZ with the assurance that "inside information" guarantees that we will see this rising star/solid pro/wise old head signing for the Mighty Blues before the week is out.

Repeat.

 

[Ljubljana Branch]

you've too much time on your hands.

 

[Dustybin]

I love this time of year, it's always the same:

1. Random names are posted on SZ with the assurance that "inside information" guarantees that we will see this rising star/solid pro/wise old head signing for the Mighty Blues before the week is out.

2. 10% of SZ proclaim the dawning of a new age of Footballing Triumph with these new players spearheading our return to the Championship. 80% of SZ is unmoved. 10% of SZ threaten self-immolation at the very thought of such unworthies pulling on the Sacred Cloth of Shrimperdom. All of 1. & 2. is worth around 97.4 posts per player named.

3. The named players sign for another club. 10% of SZ wail that RM lacks ambition and Tilson wouldn't know a good player if he was bitten by one. 80% of SZ remain unmoved. 10% of SZ heave a mighty sigh of relief. There is no correlation, BTW, between the ratio of SZ'rs in 2. and 3.

4. At 2 minutes to midnight on the last day of the Transfer Window, it is revealed that we have signed a new player. This player will not have been mentioned in any thread on SZ in the preceding months. The 10% of SZ who have been calling for a player, ANY player to boost our squad promptly label this "A Panic Buy". The 10% of SZ who have threatend mass suicide at any of the names mentioned previously now decide that ANY of them would have been better than the donkey now residing in SUFC's stable. 80% of SZ raise an eyebrow and determine to wait and judge after a suitable time.

5. The Donkey has a storming first game. Mass apologies are posted by those who had previously only detected the smell of hay. The Donkey has a poor second game. The apologies are immediately rescinded and the chorus of "I told you so"'s is deafening. Flame wars erupt between the "I've not actually seen him but you could tell he was crap by the BBC Text Commentary" and the "Judge him after 20 games" camps. Matt the Shrimp finally loses it with Wiggy after discovering that Wiggy is actually either A) CSJ or B) CSJ's mum (or dad).

6. Order is eventually restored, just in time for the first Random name to be posted on SZ with the assurance that "inside information" guarantees that we will see this rising star/solid pro/wise old head signing for the Mighty Blues before the week is out.

Repeat.

So true...

 

[Bromley Blue]

Is very true but Im hoping Tilly learns from his mistakes over the previous couple of seasons. Like the money we seem set to lose on Billy Paynter and Guttridge seemed to go for next to nothing and now he's supposedly being linked to Charlton. IMO Bradbury who was another last minute buy has been a good servant and was one of the key performers at the tail end of last season playing wide right midfield. In Harrold and Paynter Tilson must have realised they havent exactly set the world alight and so he needs to get to work early this time around to get in a better standard of player. IMO opinion there's a reason Harrold n Paynter were still at their respective clubs before we signed em...no sod wanted em.

Me and my friend were discussing Freddy's supposed imminent departure before the Saints game and how his transfer money would/should be spent. I said we needed to ensure we got a regular goalscorer if we had any aspirations for a top 6 finish n spend 500,000 on someone who has always scored goals...e.g Izale McLeod (or however u spell it) because without that we seriously could be lower midtable or worse next season. He said he agreed but its Southend...we'll end up with a past it player on a freebie and maybe a youngster with a bit of promise. I had to agree.